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A total of 19 Technical Education sessions are being offered at the IOD conference on Sunday October 14 in Las Vegas. The sessions are spread across the following segments: Information Platform & Solutions (3)Enterprise Content Management (3)Data Servers (12)Support (1) The fee for these classes is set at $399.00 which is the same price as offered at last year's conference. I've listed most of the available sessions in this entry. Click on the link to see the list and to register for the class. Successfully Transitioning with DB2 9 for z/OS... [More]

Roger Sanders' latest book DB2 9 Fundamentals Certification Study Guide continues to sell extremely well... and has received 6 customer reviews on amazon.com.... all rated 5 stars! What are people saying? Click the link above to see all the customer reviews (or to add your own if you own the book :) The ITSO sends out lists of the most popular IBM Redbooks each month, in terms of the number of downloads. The list covers all IBM Redbooks, across all product areas. This past month, there were 2 DB2 book in the top 10 list: * DB2 9 for z/OS... [More]

I hope you'll be able to find this book: DB2 9 Fundamentals Certification Study Guide in actual bookstores... but if not, check out amazon.com . Today they put the book on sale with a 37% discount! Today I received my copies of the book. They look amazing. The most unique thing about the book is the large number of sample questions. Each chapter has several study questions along with reasons why the correct answer is the right one. Each of these study questions are repeated in Appendix B... and take up 105 pages of the book. By far the... [More]

Last Tuesday, IBM announced the availability of DB2 9 for z/OS and the reception has been red hot! From the press release : DB2 9 promises to provide users of System z with advanced security, superior data compression, enhanced disaster recovery and reduced system administration costs. DB2 9 for z/OS brings advancements to the mainframe that include patented pureXML™ technology as well as the ability to manage both relational and XML information within the same database. Related to this, the newest V9 certifications are arriving: DB2 9... [More]

Many of us are unable to take the time to go to a conference for a week to build our skills. If you would like to go to a face-to-face event to learn about a new product or technology with taking the time or expense of a full conference, see if there is a technical briefing planned for your city. As an example, you may wish to consider attending the following technical briefing: Experience the power of Information Management solutions This is a half-day briefing that covers the following: * Learn how DB2 9 can help you reduce costs and... [More]

The SOA Compass book continues to be a fast moving book. Have you had a chance to look at it yet? To download one of the chapters, see http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0131870025&rl=1 This site also contains many customer reactions to the book such as this one: "Service-Oriented Architecture offers a pathway tonetworking of intra- and inter-corporate business systems.The standards have the potential to create far more flexibleand resilient business information systems than have beenpossible in the past. This book is a... [More]

The second edition of the Information Management Professional Certification Newsletter is now available:http://www.ibm.com/software/data/education/cert-newsletter.html. In this edition, find out about the certifications that are currently under development and when they are expected to be live. You'll see a list of the events where certifications are being offered for free or at a reduced price. Also, you'll have links to the latest white papers and offers. susan

Have you ever used an online book engine such as Safari or Books 24x7 ? Both Safari and Books 24x7 are online book engines that give you access to thousands of retail books. These engines are quite powerful and very suitable in today's electronic world. IBM Press books are now available in both engines. Safari is an online book engine that is jointly owned by Pearson and O'Reilly. All books that are published by these publishers are automatically formatted for Safari and made available to anyone who has a subscription to Safari. If you... [More]

Can you think of an industry that is changing more drastically than publishing is at this time? More books are now being sold for devices such as Kindle than printed books. There are so many Kindle-like book readers available that it is pretty difficult to name them all. I’m not sure if “books on tape” or audible forms of books were popular in the past, but I’ve personally become a huge fan and am listening to about half the books I consume in a year. Another big change is the movement away from... [More]

Here is the master list of current and upcoming books for DB2 on Linux, Unix and Windows . Updates will be made to this page as books are published, so bookmark this page and come back often. DB2 Essentials: Understanding DB2 in a Big Data World (3rd Edition) By Raul Chong and Clara Liu (Oct 10 2013) DB2 10.1 Fundamentals: Certification Study Guide By Roger E. Sanders (Nov 1, 2013)... [More]

As usual, IBM Champions are well represented at IDUG this year. Gain knowledge from this group of talented and hardworking people, who I consider IBM’s best friends! I’ve done my best to pull out all the sessions that IBM Champions are taking part in at the IDUG DB2 Tech Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA 2013 Orlando, Florida April 29th - May 3rd, 2013 If I missed any, please let me know and I’ll update this entry. Monday April 29 - Full Day Educational Seminars DB2 z/OS DBA... [More]

A
very popular item on the developerWorks site is the series of
Certification Tutorials. The V10 Tutorials are starting to be published
now. We were hoping to have them all done by the end of September, but
it didn’t happen. I’m
very happy with the quality of the tutorials that we are getting and I
hope you find them very helpful while preparing to pass for your exam.
Many thanks to the authors who found the time in their regular life to
put these together. It wasn’t easy for any of them, but an achievement
to be very... [More]

Congratulations to DB2 for getting into the Guinness World Records for the largest data warehouse ! Here are some details: The largest data warehouse resides at the IBM Technology Campus in Dublin,
Ireland and c ontains 3 petabyte (3,000 terabytes) of raw data .
The software is IBM - DB2 Information Management and the official date of the
record is January 18, 2012.
According to wikipedia :
A petabyte (derived from the SI prefix peta- ) is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion ( short scale ) bytes , or 1 billiard (... [More]

After a long delay, I can finally announce that this long awaited book has published. DB2 10 for z/OS Database Administration: Certification Study
Guide by IBM Champions Susan Lawson and Daniel Luksetich I can also tell you that the covers for the certification series of books by
MC Press have been redesigned and will be launched on this title. I hope you like the
new design. What’s in the book? Read this book to prepare to pass Exam 612 – DB2 10 for
z/OS Database Administration .
All test objectives for this exam are covered... [More]